Zhang Yue

Single channel video, 31’08’’

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Zhang Yue

Composite materials, 42.5×62.5cm each, four pieces

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Zhang Yue

Composite materials, Dimensions variable

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Zhang Yue & Bao Xiaowei

Single channel video, 23’27’’

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The Kokang region is the areas that produce the most drugs in the Golden Triangle. In the twentieth century, there were many famous drug lords such as KunSa, Luo Xinghan and Peng JiaSheng. Covers an area of 2060 square kilometers, and adjacent to Zhenkang County, Yunnan Province, China. Under the leadership of Peng Jiasheng, in 1989, he left Communist party of Burma and founded the Burmese National Democratic Alliance Army（MNDAA）, some of whom were paratrooper soldiers of the 93th National Kuomintang and their descendants. There is also a part of the "3035" educated youth soldier founded by the Chinese educated youth in 1969. In 2015, the Kokang military conflict with the Burmese government forces continued. On March 22, 2015, Zhang Yue and Bao Xiaowei set out from Beijing Studio and went March 22 along with the Kokang Youth Association to smuggling into the "Refugee camp in Maddy River." In the course of the war, they collected and surveyed refugee camps and Kokang panoramic ecosystems in an in-kind collection of textual photographic drawings and conducted in-depth investigations into local guerrillas, drug traffickers, prostitutes, secondary school teachers, smugglers, tobacco farmers and casinos Interview. During he return to Beijing, created works about this investigation exchanged 42,105 kg rice, and personally escorted the rice to 6,364 people. To avoid to the guerrillas, local forces, and some unidentified people who pretend to be refugees to take the lead to rob rice.